Falling at each hurdle: Assessing the credibility of women's asylum claims in Europe

Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 98-115

  Singer, Debora ^a  

^a Asylum Aid   (United Kingdom)

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